I learned something about myself this month. I was deeply repelled by a book by an author whose short essays I love. This book, about basketball, begins by discussing “our enemies,” talking about other teams, people “we” hate, the difficulties of hatred. The reviews say this is an ultimately uplifting book, but I didn’t make […]
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Everyone I’m talking to right now vibrates just a little. The stress of the current economy, the political infighting, the hatred coming out of the mouths of some politicians is putting everyone on edge. Not just here, but worldwide. I had a hunch these next few weeks would be difficult back in early 2026 as Jason […]
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I have written so many Seavy County stories that sometimes I forget which books and stories were set there. I’ve worked on this Seavy County Kickstarter all summer long, and it wasn’t until two weeks ago that I realized my romance novel, The Death of Davy Moss, is a Seavy County story. We added it to the […]
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Sometimes I have no idea where stories come from. They just evolve. Annie Reed and Dave Hendrickson asked me to participate in their Romance For All Seasons anthology subtitled Festive Fall. They asked for something that would suggest fall and told me that it was okay to include magic in the story. Well, my brain […]
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Many of you have read my Seavy County stories over the years. You might even have noticed they were set in a fictional part of the Oregon Coast. Or maybe you just thought I wrote a lot of Oregon Coast stories. (I do.) I put them in a made-up part of the coast because I […]
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It took me a long time to finish this list, and I did start it in July, like usual. There’s just a lot to recommend from what I was reading. And a few things I’m not going to recommend, mentioned below. A good reading month, all in all. Read a recently published history of 1929. I […]
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With school over (as of the first week of May), I have more time to read. I occasionally binged a novel. I’ve had some down days as the chronic health issues flared and on one lovely day, I read two entire novels, something I hadn’t done since the damn dental surgeries of 2023. It was […]
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Annie Reed and Dave Hendrickson invited me to participate in their summertime romance anthology, Sunkissed Summer. I love writing for anthologies, and as my life is getting less hectic, I have more time to do so. (I had hoped to be in their previous volumes, but time and attention allow that to be possible.) Sunkissed Summer features […]
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Dean Wesley Smith and I just launched a brand new Kickstarter for our Detectives Collide project. Several years ago, Kickstarter began a fun January promotion called “Make 100.” The idea was to put together 100 of something and create a Kickstarter for it. So, of course, Dean and I figured out ways to put together […]
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We’ve reached the point in the season where folks are feeling stressed. It might be the looming year’s end. It might be the crush of Christmas obligations for those who celebrate. It might simply be all the darkness (in this hemisphere, at least). To cope with the holiday stress, I read holiday romances. And I […]
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